Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-25
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. RAIN BY THE BUCKET. It Falls Steadily For Three
 Days.
 RIVERS RUNNING VERY HIGH, Tracks Under Water and
 Travel Stopped. IA CHICAGO BOODLER ESCAPES. The Volunteer Puts After
 The Priscilla.
IA CHICAGO BOODLER ESCAPES.

STEADY RAIN FOR THREE DAYS Nine Inches of Rain Which Flood
 the Country and Causes Much Dam age to PrOperay.
 l DOVER, N. H., July 24.-It has been rain ing here steadily since Thursday at 8 a. ID
 The total rainfall from then until s o'cloc
 tonight Is estimated at about nine inches
 which is unprecedented. The Cocheeo rive
 is roaring torrent. The flush boards wer
 swept away this morning and by actua
 measurement at o'clock tonight the volum
 of water rushing over the Cocheco dam wa
 thifty-seven inches with the freshet increas
 ing. All lowlands throughout the countr,
 are badly inundated. Considerable of tn
 hay crop is lost and several highway bridge
 gre in danger of being swept away. Man,
 roadways are impossible tonight on accoun | of washouts.
 HooKsETT, N. H., July 24.-The continu
 ous lowery weather since Wednesday termi
 mated last night in one of the heaviest rair
 storms for thirty years, fully five inches ot
 water falling through the night. Highways an iltervales were flooded.
 | LAKE PLEASANT, Mass, July 24.-This has been the most severe rain ever known in this vicinity. The water in Lake Pleasant is two t feet higher than ever before. The roar of the mountain streams sounds like that of the | ocean and can be heard for miles. There was 8 reported rise in the Connecticut of ten feet \ in one hour and twenty minutes. No trains have passed here since morning. A washout 1 is reported on the Fitchburg road near Frying one hundred feet long. All the carriage roads in this vicinity are badly damaged and many bridges carried away.
 MANCHESTER, N. H., July 24.-The sever est storm in many years has been in progress since Thursday and rain is still falling. In four hours last night BOA inches of rain fell, and many streets were rendered impossible by torrents of water which swept through them. A culvert on Hall street burst result ing in the tearing up of the street for several hundred feet and the oyerthrowing of 8 horse railroad track so that not car was run to day. All of the streets leading down Wilson Hill are unfit for travel because of being badly washed. Kidder, Merrimack, East Spencer and Hall streets are closed to travel. The river is foaming torrent, and high water will prevent some of the mills from running. Unless there is speedy cessa- tion of the rain serious results are feared. The rain fall since Thursday up to 2 o'clock to- night aggregating 7.49 inches.
 GREENFIELD, July 24.-Several bad wash outs occurred this morning on the Fitchburg at Frying. One is twenty feet long and be- tween ten and twelve feet deep. The others are not so long, but are equally as deep and dangerous. All travel to-day has been suspended. The St. Louis express due in Boston to-day at o'clock had to remain at Miller's Falls all day and tonight returned with it's pas- sengers to Greenfield, from which point the sleeping car force will go back to Chicago for further service. The hotels to-night are filled with disappointed passengers. For four days it has rained almost inces- sanity until streams and rivers have T. III k1 nJl- of the water last night commenced undermining the track at Frying and this morning sections of the embankment with filling, rails and all have disappeared. The water tonight is rushing through the chasms between the broken entertainments. Large gangs of men have been employed all day seeking to repair the tracks so the trains can pass, but it will take until Monday afternoon before the trestles can be built sufficiently strong to hold the heavy trains. Meanwhile travelling along the line from Miller's Falls is necessarily cut off. No casualties are reported as the break was dis covered at an early hour of the morn ing. It will take at least two weeks of incessant labor with 8 large force of men to rebuild the embark ment and place it on it's former condition. Meanwhile travel will have to pass over trestle work, which is already in progress of construction.
 A Man Drowned at Great Harrington.
 SPRINGFIELD, July 24.-The only news re- ceived from the Mill river valley tonight is that c. E. Thayer's grist mill dam and Nor tons dam have given way. People along the valley of the old Mill river disaster have been anxious all day and are lying awake tonight. Part of the foundation of Hills mill at Will liamsburg washed away this morning, but it is impossible to learn what damage the giving away of the dams tonight has done. Re ports from Berkshire county are meagre. A short despatch saying that eighteen persons were drowned on the New York side of the Taghonic range is all the news obtainable.
 BOSTON, July 24.-A late despatch from Great Burlington to the Associated Press says that but one life was lost. Frank Charles Drum, of Craryville, climbed into railroad tank to escape the bridges are gone besides grist mills, dams and factories. There are washouts in spots fifty feet long and ten feet deep. The lost bridges were valued at from $2, 500 to $5, 900 each.
 A Child Dies From Hydrophob1a
 CHICAGO, July 24.-Arthur Mueller, aged two years, died yesterday from hydrophobia. Five weeks ago last Sunday the family were at puDl1c garden, ana the boy was playing outside, when small black dog rushed up to the little fellow, biting him on the third finger of his left hand and scratching him slightly on the cheek. The father was called to the child by his cries, and was himself bitten on the thumb by the dog. Mr. Mueller then shot the animal, and subsequently went into an adjoining drug store to have the wounds of himself and his child dressed. For some unknown reason the wounds of the child were not cauterized, though that of MT. Mueller was, the little ones wounds being only with carbolic salve. As the child's wounds healed rapidly no further attention was paid to the matter, and when he was taken sick last Wednesday evening no one thought of the dog bites of some weeks ago as being the cause of his illness. On Thurs day morning the child was so i'll that doc tor was called, and on first examination at tributed the illness to overheating. The same evening the boy was attacked with we'll known symptoms of hydrophobia, which lasted throughout the night. Yesterday morning when the doctor made a second visit it was seen that there was little hope of the child's recovery. He fingered along, hay ing periodical convulsions, until the after noon, when he died in great agony.